AI Integration Strategies: Making Your Company Future-Ready

Make an IIIMPACT - The User Inexperience Podcast

Welcome to another exciting episode of Make an IiIMPACT - The User Inexperience!

Today, we have our hosts Makoto Kern, President @ IIIMPACT and his AI Integration team - Brynley Evans and Joe Kraft.

We're diving into the transformative power of AI in the business world with our hosts, Brynley Evans, Makoto Kern, and Joe Kraft. In this episode, you'll discover how browsing various AI models—both open-source and proprietary—can help you find the best fit for your needs. From sentiment analysis for financial data to chat completion for customer service, AI's practical applications are vast and game-changing.

We'll explore how AI can reduce complexities, enhance functionality, and improve efficiency, whether it's through text generation, forecasting future trends, or optimizing resources. You'll hear about the importance of proper integration, testing, and continuous adaptation, especially given the rapid evolution of AI technology. Plus, we'll touch on some real-world applications, including social media regulation and health monitoring, and discuss recent AI-related news, like the 23andMe board resignation.

Join us as we unpack the essential considerations for implementing AI in your business, demystify complex concepts, and provide actionable steps to ensure your AI integration is both effective and strategic. Let's make an impact together!

IIIMPACT has been in business for +20 years. Our growth success has been rewarded by being on the Inc. 5000 for the past 3 years in a row as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Product Strategy to Design to Development - we reshape how you bring software visions to life. Our unique approach is designed to minimize risk and circumvent common challenges, ensuring our clients can bring innovative and impactful products to market with confidence and efficiency.

We facilitate rapid strategic planning that leads to intuitive UX design, and better collaboration between business, design to development.

Bottom line. We help our clients launch better products, faster.

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Timestamp:
00:00 Demystifying AI: Steps and practical examples discussed.

04:38 Models predict image content using tagged data.

07:16 Browsing models to fit your use case.

10:59 AI mimics conversation, expands functionality, executes tasks.

15:29 AI enhances translation with dynamic, multilingual content.

18:35 Exploring speech recognition and sentiment analysis.

22:29 Internal document analysis AI chatbots simplify research.

24:18 AI's role: social media, health, reliability, diagnostics.

29:13 Evaluate AI feasibility for integrating innovative solutions.

32:55 Choose self-hosted models or third-party services.

36:54 User-centric, holistic approach for AI integration.

38:58 Focus on impact, not features, for AI.

Bios:

Makoto Kern - Founder and UX Principal at IIIMPACT - a UX Product Design and Development Consulting agency. IIIMPACT has been on the Inc 5000 for the past 3 consecutive years and is one of the fastest-growing privately-owned companies. His team has successively launched 100s of digital products over the past +20 years in almost every industry vertical. IIIMPACT helps clients get from the 'Boardroom concept to Code' faster by reducing risk and prioritizing the best UX processes through their clients' teams.

Brynley Evans - Lead UX Strategist and Front End Developer - Leading large-scale enterprise software projects for the past +10 years, he possesses a diverse skill set and is driven by a passion for user-centered design; he works on every phase of a project from concept to final deliverable, adding value at each stage. He's recently been part of IIIMPACT's leading AI Integration team, which helps companies navigate, reduce their risk, and integrate AI into their enterprise applications more effectively.

Joe Kraft - Solutions Architect / Full Stack Developer - With over 10 years of experience across numerous domains, his expertise lies in designing, developing, and modernizing software solutions. He has recently focused on his role as our AI team lead on integrating AI technology into client software applications.

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